(v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
(v. i.) To void excrement.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(2) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
(3) dives females oviposited in a medium of rat dung and water.
(4) Dorian Lucas, a nuclear specialist at energy consultancy, Inenco, made his comments after it was revealed that power group, EDF, had won permission to change the rules for its Dungeness B station.
(5) The result of this investigation indicated that probably the majority of the indoor catches are due to the migration of outdoor-produced sandflies specially in close surroundings where dried cow dung droppings were left.
(6) It was in the US that things really kicked off, when Giuliani declared: “The idea of, in the name of art, having a city subsidise art, so-called works of art, in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin Mary, is sick.” He threatened to remove funding from the Brooklyn Museum unless “the director comes to his senses”.
(7) The only site rejected in the draft document was Dungeness, chiefly because of its "unique ecosystem".
(8) The composition of the myxobacterial flora depends on ecological factors (kind of dung pellets, rock, bark and pH).
(9) A smaller group of 9 horses showed a subacute course while 22 horses had chronic enteritis with intermittent diarrhoea--often semisolid like cow's dung--increased peristalsis, weight loss and, in some cases, hypoproteinaemia with subcutaneous edema.
(10) The dung of both the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is considered to be a possible alternative site for the immatures of C. kanagai.
(11) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
(12) Among dairy cows, wet cattle dung and all that, he was in a tie and jacket.
(13) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
(14) The adults, puparium and 3rd instar larva of a dung-breeding fly, Musca nevilli sp.
(15) Predictions for this model are tested using all available data from the dung fly, Scatophaga stercoraria.
(16) The incidence of extensive damage to natural dung pats within five days of deposition, caused by biotic factors, another possible cause of D viviparus third stage larvae dispersal, varied from 0 to 92 per cent of the pats depending on their degree of dryness.
(17) Invasion by the recently defined dung beetle, Maladera matrida, is a new phenomenon which causes extreme distress, usually starting after invasion by the insect in the early morning hours.
(18) The quantitative and comparative analysis of the Purkinje cells indicates the higher mean linear density in the anterior lobe, with regard to posterior lobe, in the cerebellum of the dung cook, Gallus gallus.
(19) In 1999 Rudy Giuliani, the then mayor of New York City, tried to shut down Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition after taking offence at Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a portrait of the Virgin Mary created partly from elephant dung.
(20) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.
Spoor
Definition:
(n.) The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.
(v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spoors says a number of these countries—for instance Switzerland, Luxembourg and Ireland—are responsible for the loopholes in the system and have an interest in protecting the status quo.
(2) While most countries feel the impact of tax avoidance, Oxfam Australia G20 coordinator Claire Spoors says it takes an especially profound toll on low-income countries.
(3) The median hearing thresholds as well as the 25 and 75 percentiles are worse in the present study compared with a sex and age matched non-noise-exposed reference group (Spoor and Passchier-Vermeer, 1969 International Audiology, 8, 328 336) and a screened otologically normal reference group (ISO, 7029).
(4) The committee believes that intake of natural U in water should be limited by considerations of toxicity to the kidney, and we believe that the metabolic model of Spoor and Hursh with a modified gastrointestinal (GI) absorption (1.4%) should be used to infer kidney content.
(5) Oxfam has been concerned that this is an OECD-G20 initiative that clearly leaves out the world’s poorest countries,” Spoors says.
(6) Two amputated lower legs were analyzed kinematically, according to Van Langelaan and Spoor's photogrammetric method; dynamically, by measuring moments (M) and recording vertical tibial translations (S); and finally by comparing the stepwise and continuous supination and pronation of one specimen (female 29).
(7) Many developing countries are likely to be cut out of that exchange because they do not have the capacity to ensure the confidentiality that is being prescribed,” Spoors says.
(8) Allowance for age and sex was made by using the presbyacusis values of SPOOR as the reference.
(9) Spoors said the recent leaked tax documents showing how thousands of major companies were legally minimising tax through tax deals involving Luxembourg proved that public reporting of country by country profits would be a much more effective deterrent.
(10) Claire Spoors, the G20 coordinator for Oxfam, said the leaked tax documents proved why public reporting of country by country profits would be much a more effective deterrent.
(11) They followed the oil rig's mashed-up trail, the rainbow-filmed liquid spoor, the tripod crater prints.
(12) But Spoors says developing countries need more than words from the G20: “There are 15 proposals in the BEPS project, and seven of them have been decided on in Cairns.
(13) Financial institutions and many other G20 governments do recognise the issue as a threat to growth and among them is next year’s host, Turkey,” said Oxfam spokeswoman Claire Spoors.
(14) Claire Spoors, the G20 coordinator for Oxfam, said the recent leaked tax documents showing how thousands of major companies were legally minimising tax through tax deals involving Luxembourg proved that public reporting of country by country profits would be much a more effective deterrent.